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whitepaper Data Security - Complexity, Cost and Potential Legislation2008-03-01 Kaulkin Ginsberg
  Currently, there is no uniform standard for data security - either voluntary or mandated by the federal government. However, the large number of bills introduced in recent Congresses suggests that the House and the Senate are no longer looking the other way. With the significant possibility of legislative changes establishing a whole new series of compliance requirements, there is a strong case for the financial services industry to create one on its own. As businesses grapple with the issues of data security and identity theft, the financial services industry has developed a number of standards and certifications in its attempts to ensure compliance with existing federal guidelines for the storage and sharing of consumer information.

Tags: Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Food Company Improves Protection With Easily Managed, Comprehensive Solution2008-01-01 Microsoft Tips
  California-based Del Monte Foods sells popular branded food and pet products in grocery stores and other outlets across the United States. Recently, the company's work force has grown, which means messaging and collaboration has played an increasingly important role for Del Monte employees, who use Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to communicate. To improve protection of its information and management of these technologies, Del Monte deployed Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint, Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console, and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. These combined products offer Del Monte easy deployment, solid antivirus protection, and centralized control of the IT environment.

Tags: Email, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Real-Time Multistage Attack Awareness Through Enhanced Intrusion Alert Clustering2007-12-01 University at Buffalo
  Correlation and fusion of intrusion alerts to provide effective Situation Awareness of cyber-attacks has become an active area of research. Snort is the most widely deployed intrusion detection sensor. For many networks and their system administrators, the alerts generated by Snort are the primary indicators of network misuse and attacker activity. However, the volume of the alerts generated in typical networks makes real-time attack scenario comprehension dif-cult. This paper present an attack-stage oriented classification of alerts using Snort as an example, and demonstrate that this effectively improves real-time Situation Awareness of multistage attacks. It also incorporate this scheme into a real-time attack detection framework and prototype presented by the authors in previous work and provide some results from testing against multistage attack scenarios.

Tags: Intrusion Detection Systems		   
whitepaper Improving the Efficiency and Robustness of Intrusion Detection Systems2007-12-01 Georgia Institute of Technology
  With the increase in the complexity of computer systems, existing security measures are not enough to prevent attacks. Intrusion detection systems have become an integral part of computer security to detect attempted intrusions. Intrusion detection systems need to be fast in order to detect intrusions in real time. Furthermore, intrusion detection systems need to be robust against the attacks which are disguised to evade them. The runtime complexity and space requirements of a host-based anomaly detection system are improved that uses q-gram matching. q-gram matching is often used for approximate substring matching problems in a wide range of application areas, including intrusion detection.

Tags: Intrusion Detection Systems		   
whitepaper Dependency-Based Distributed Intrusion Detection2007-12-01 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Distributed network intrusion detection has attracted much attention recently. The main focus in this work is on zero-day, slow-scanning worms, of which no existing signatures are available. End hosts are organized into regions based on network knowledge, which it posits is positively correlated to the dependency structure. Leveraging on this organization, different intrusion detection techniques are applied within and across regions. A Hidden Markov Model (HMM) is used within a region to capture the dependency among hosts, and use Sequential Hypothesis Testing (SHT) globally to take advantage of the independence between regions.

Tags: Intrusion Detection Systems		   
whitepaper Stealthy Malware Detection Through VMM-Based "Out-of-the-Box" Semantic View Reconstruction2007-11-02 Association for Computing Machinery
  An alarming trend in malware attacks is that they are armed with stealthy techniques to detect, evade, and subvert malware detection facilities of the victim. On the defensive side, a fundamental limitation of traditional host-based anti-malware systems is that they run inside the very hosts they are protecting ("In the box"), making them vulnerable to counter-detection and subversion by malware. To address this limitation, recent solutions based on Virtual Machine (VM) technologies advocate placing the malware detection facilities outside of the protected VM ("Out of the box"). However, they gain tamper resistance at the cost of losing the native, semantic view of the host which is enjoyed by the "In the box" approach, thus leading to a technical challenge known as the semantic gap.   
whitepaper Vulnerability Assessment: The Right Tools to Protect Your Critical Data2007-10-18 Application Security
  Vulnerability Assessment (VA) has become one of the hottest fields within the computer security market. VA tools are designed to detect and report on security holes within various software applications, allowing organizations to take corrective actions before a devastating attack occurs. Due to the reduction in "time to exploit" once a new vulnerability reaches the public domain, and the regulatory pressures imposed on businesses within a variety of verticals, the need for reliable vulnerability assessment has never been greater. Unfortunately, the environment in which software applications are developed today is largely driven by schedule and features, rather then stability or security.

Tags: Data Recovery - Security		   
whitepaper Integrated Solution Simplifies Management, Improves Protection of Client Devices2007-10-16 Microsoft Tips
  Paul Smith, a designer and retailer of clothing and luxury goods, wanted a client security solution that would be easier to manage. The current solution had to be maintained separately, which conflicted with the company goal of a more streamlined, integrated IT environment. To improve efficiency, Paul Smith and Risual chose a solution based on Microsoft Forefront Client Security. Although still in the early stages of implementation, the company reports that integration with familiar tools like Microsoft Systems Management Server and Operations Manager are simplifying management. The IT team has better control over client security through detailed reporting and more effective administration of software and virus definition updates.

Tags: Email, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Food Company Improves IT Security System View and Management Using New Solution2007-10-01 Microsoft Tips
  Del Monte Foods, based in San Francisco, California, sells popular, premium-quality branded food and pet products throughout the United States. The organization's employees rely heavily on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for messaging and collaboration. To better protect these environments, Del Monte deployed Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Forefront Security for SharePoint. However, the company's small IT department needed a solution that would help it better manage those products. In June 2007, Del Monte implemented Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console. The company's administrators now have a better view of security and can more effectively manage the infrastructure. The solution also integrates with existing Del Monte software products and will help the company save time and improve protection.

Tags: Email, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper CyberDefender AntiSpyware 2008 2.02007-09-19 CyberDefender
  CyberDefender AntiSpyware remover and free AntiVirus remover protects against spyware, viruses, trojans, adware, spam, phishing and Internet identity theft. If your system is crashing, incredibly slow, filled with spam email, or covered with pop-up ads, you probably have spyware. CyberDefender protects PCs against new online attacks twelve times faster than the competition. This is a free spyware removal download. Try CyberDefender for FREE!

Tags: Intrusion Detection Systems, Spyware		   


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